04-17-2015, 06:14 PM
(04-17-2015, 04:35 PM)innsertnamehere Wrote: The trains are apparently going to run express past Bramalea.One of the benefits of the Barrie line is that Metrolinx owns it in its entirety, whereas CN owns a good portion of the Kitchener line between Bramalea and just west of Georgetown. Their proposal to operate regional express rail to Aurora on the Barrie line also fits in with their phased approach of serving their core, inner network before expanding outward.
It strikes me as odd that they are not proposing some kind of counter peak service to Kitchener in any form, but yet seem happy to provide hourly service to Barrie.. Makes me think there is more to this, especially given how huge of a local issue all day service to Kitchener was during the election.
(04-17-2015, 06:04 PM)jamincan Wrote: I'm wondering if there might be a HSR announcement in the future that would essentially cover two-way all-day service. The outside GTA fund doesn't have enough drawing out of it and 30-min peak service seems essentially pointless to me.This. The talk at Urban Toronto is about how upgrades to the Kitchener line (everything west of Brampton) will likely be funded from the non-GTA pot and that true service expansion to Kitchener will come in the form of a high-speed rail EA. Essentially, true expansion to Kitchener is its own beast and excluded from today's phase 1 RER announcement.